Volunteer Induction Training

Volunteer Induction Training

Our induction training is 2 full days of interactive training. You do not need to have any previous experience in working with people who have the potential to cause sexual harm. Our most powerful volunteers are 'normal' members of the community with the passion and commitment to our mission of no more victims.

During this training your suitability to Circles will be discreetly assessed and any questions or concerns you have answered.

Contents of the 2-Day Induction Training

Circles – Background Information

What is Support/Accountability?

The Finklehor 4-steps to a sexual offence model

Probation Service Interventions and Sex Offender Treatment Programmes

Attitudes & Beliefs about ‘Sex Offenders’

Safeguarding

What it feels like to be in a Circle

Personal Impact and self care

Protection and MAPPA

Volunteers’ experiences

Police work with Registered Sex Offenders

Identifying and acting on risk concerns

Being in a Circle

Next Steps

Training Dates

15th & 22nd January 2018

13th & 20th April 2018

Feedback

- PROBATION -

“A Circle provides vital support during the critical period when statutory supervision by the probation service is coming to an end. The partnership between statutory services and YHCOSA facilitates a smooth transition on from probation supervision within a robust risk management plan”

- POLICE -

“YHCOSA is a well respected charity with a very clear ethic & a proven track record of working with High Risk sex offenders. The work they do if fantastic, it makes THE difference, Circles really makes the community safer”

- POLICE -

“One offender I worked with I was sure would reoffend. We monitored him and his lifestyle was extremely chaotic and dangerous. Circles really settled him down, he felt like he had a chance for the first time in his life. He is now in a stable relationship and working. 3 years he's been out of prison now – it's surprising but great! Circles helped him change his life and he's caused no more victims”

- VOLUNTEER -

“the social progress our core member made. Initially our core member was quiet and not forward at all. By the end of our circle he was initiating texts, trips and suggesting places to go. This is something that 18 months ago we would not have thought would ever happen”

- VOLUNTEER -

“(the Circle provided) a safe environment in which he could talk about issues arising from his offences and by encouraging and facilitating a more diverse social life with him”

- VOLUNTEER -

“It was rewarding working in a group with everyone participating equally but in their different ways”

- ALBERT CAMUS - -

“Don't walk behind me, I may not lead, Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow, Just walk beside me and be my (critical) friend”

- GOETHE -

“Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be”

- FERGUS McNEILL -

“COSA impress and inspire me so much because they focus their not on the 'low-hanging fruit' of those that might be most easily reintegrated but on those for whom the process is at its most challenging; those who are amongst the most vilified and isolated people in our society”

- CORE MEMBER -

“The most important thing for me is that I'm challenged on my behaviour. If I'm on my own no-one's there to correct me”